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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E. - 1995
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473734
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Coping with Disaster : The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002
Yang, Dean - 2006
How well do countries cope with the aftermath of natural disasters? In particular, do international financial flows help buffer countries in the wake of disasters? This paper focuses on hurricanes (one of the most common and destructive types of disasters), and examines the impact of hurricane...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465865
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2005
We examine the effects of aid on growth--in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after thiscorrection, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467166
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Why World Redistribution Fails
Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2002
An optimal linear world income tax that maximizes a border-neutral social welfare function provides a drastic reduction … in world consumption inequality, dropping the Gini coefficient from 0.69 to 0.25. In contrast an optimal decentralized (i ….e., within countries) redistribution has miniscule effect on world income inequality. Thus, the traditional public finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469524
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Trust in State and Non-State Actors : Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
Lack of trust in state institutions, often due to poor service provision, is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. If this increases reliance on non-state actors for crucial services, the resulting self-reinforcing cycle can further weaken the state. This paper examines whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453107
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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011
This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460950
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Detecting Fraud in Development Aid
Ensminger, Jean Evelyn; Leder-Luis, Jetson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply this method to a World Bank development project in Kenya. Our evidence is consistent with higher levels of … validated by qualitative data and a forensic audit conducted by the World Bank. We produce simulations that demonstrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477260
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471686
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Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Alesina, Alberto - 1998
This paper studies the pattern of allocation of foreign aid from various donors to receiving countries. We find considerable evidence that the direction of foreign aid is dictated by political and strategic considerations, much more than by the economic needs and policy performance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472199
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter - 1995
Critics of foreign aid programs have long argued that poverty reflects government failure. In this paper I analyze the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries. My analytical framework shows how three stylized political/economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473562